An ever growing number of virtual machines on servers that lowers their efficiency. Machine underutilization is one of the reasons for virtualizing servers in the first place; however, instances of virtual machines (VMs) can be dynamically allocated to servers, and if too many VMs are added without proper management, they can overwhelm the hardware and decrease efficiency. See server sprawl.
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